Chapter 3- The Kim Issue
Sam looked up from the front path at the huge highschool. It was clearly much different to Casper High, with open verandas and buildings not joined to the rest of the school. Sam scruffed the toe of her combat boot on the ground as she fingered the necklace her friends had given her before she left. Today's outfit had to fit Mrs Manson's standards aswell, so she was wearing a light purple blouse and a black skirt, with her long hair in a high ponytail. She looked almost like a young business-woman if it wasn't for her boots.
The bell had already rung, minutes before, so everyone was in class. Sam considered making a runner, but she had no where to go. Plus her parents were waiting in the car behind her watching her walk in. It had taken enough persuation to not let them come into the school with her at all!
Finally she took the few steps through the gate and hurried to the office.
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"Late, late, late," Rikki mumbled under her breath, as she sped through the school grounds to her english class. It was her third Monday late in a row, and her english teacher threatend calling her father if she was late 3 times, and Rikki hated dissapointing her dad. He had enough to worry about already.
She just couldn't help how sidetracked she got when she went on her Monday morning swims. It was the biggest adrenaline rush everytime. Scrambling up the stairs to her classroom, she ran right up behind the school headmaster and a girl she'd never seen before. The headmaster turned as he heard her coming.
"Ah... Rikki, bit late again," he said.
"Sorry sir," she replied, glancing at the girl next to him. She was pale, with long black hair pulled up high. She wore combat boots and dark clothing, with purple lipstick.
"Now, seening as your here and heading to the same class, this is Samantha Manson," the girl practically cringed. "This is her first day and she's in your core classes. If you could take her and introduce yourself, that would be very helpful." The headmaster turned to address Samamtha. "Plus Rikki here only came a last term, so she knows all about being new" he smiled as the two girls looked at each other. "Okay, have a great day." He said walking away. The new girl looked Rikki up and down. Rikki looked down at herself. She had her khaki 3 quarter pants, red skull shirt and sneakers. As well as her blond hair in two plaits.
"What?" She asked.
"Nothing," Sam replied, continuing up the stairs.
"Nice boots," Rikki complimented, causing Sam to spin around.
"Cut the sarcasm. Don't judge the way I dress, cause I honestly don't care."
"Woah! Dude, I was being serious. There sick boots!" Sam looked a bit taken back. "Look I know all about being insecure, i've been the school wierdo since I got here cause of the way I act and dress. But the way I react to what they say just makes it all seem worse," Rikki said.
"Soon enough you'll lose your wierdo title," Sam replied.
"What?"
"I'm a much bigger 'wierdo' then you," Sam explained. Rikki smirked, but said nothing. Sam looked like she was ready for an argument about anything. The girls walked up the rest of the stairs and down the hall.
"Here we are," Rikki stated, stopping at a classroom door. She shoved it open without caring to to knock.
"Miss Chadwick," snarled the english teacher. "3 days late no-"
"I was showing Sam to class," Rikki interupted, pulling the new girl into the room. Sam looked satisfied at not being called Samantha.
"Well, I guess that is acceptable," the teacher replied. Sam lifted an eyebrow at Rikki, but didn't deny what she said. "Thankyou Rikki, take a seat please." Rikki moved to her seat besides Emma at the back of the room, noticing that Cleo was absent, leaving the seat beside Lewis empty.
"Where's Cleo?" Rikki whispered. Emma shrugged.
"Probably just sick," Emma whispered back. At the front of the class, the teacher was calling on Sam to introduce herself.
"So where are you from Samantha?" The teacher asked.
"Amity Park, America," she replied. "And call me Sam." The teacher gave a slight nod.
"Amity Park did you say?" The class turned to see who had spoken.
"Yeah," Sam answered the blond haired boy at the back of the room.
"As in the 'Ghost Capital' of the World?" He asked. Rikki screwed her eyebrows up at Lewis's ridiculous question. The class snickered.
"Yep, that's it," Sam answered. Now the class gave Sam the wierd looks.
"Ghosts don't exsist!" Laughed one of the boys.
"Wanna bet?" Snickered Sam. The class was silent.
"Okay... so 'Sam'. The only spare seat is up next to Lewis," explained the teacher. "But that's Cleo's desk, so we'll have to organise a place for you. But for today..." She beckoned towards the Lewis. The boy gave Sam a daggy wave. Sam rolled her eyes as she dragged herself to the seat.
"Lewis McCartney," he introduced.
"Sam," she answered half-heartidly, dropping her books on the desk.
"So is all the ghost stuff true?" He asked anxiously.
"Lewis, quiet," instructed the teacher, but Lewis kept his eyes on Sam. She tried ignoring him, but soon gave into his stare.
"What?" She spat suddenly.
"Real?" Lewis whispered. "Not real?" Sam huffed and kicked his leg with her boot.
"Real, now shut up."
Lewis was a bit taken aback, but happy by the response. This girl had guts, even more then Rikki. He turned to the front smiling and resumed learning.
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At lunchtime, Sam sat alone at one of the tables and Emma, Rikki and Lewis spread out of the ground.
"Should we go talk to her? Or invite her over?" Lewis asked the girls.
"I think she's alright," Rikki replied, looking at Sam.
"I think she's dark," Emma replied. "And, she dosen't look intrested in talking to anyone."
"Awww Emma," mumbled Lewis.
"Dark's not a bad thing," Rikki said. "Plus, she has cool boots."
"Come on!" Lewis answered jumping up. Rikki stood too, but Emma put her head into the grass. Rikki sighed.
"Come on Lewis," she instructed, dragging him towards Sam's table.
"Woah, I can walk myself," he laughed, stumbling a little as Rikki pulled him by his collared fishing shirt. As the pair approached the table, Sam glaced up, before eyeing her leafy lunch back down. "Hey," started Rikki, sliding into the seat next to her, Lewis remained standing.
"Hi," Sam mumbled back. Rikki looked at Sam's lunch.
"Vegetarian aye?" She asked.
"Ultra -Recyclo Vegetarian," she corrected. "It means-"
"You don't eat anything with a face." Sam looked at Rikki, shocked that she even knew what that was. Rikki shrugged. "I went vege for a while, and Ultra -Recyclo Vegetarian, sounded much less mainstream," she explained, laughing at the last line.
"So..." mumbled Lewis. "Sam, we were wondering if you wanted to come sit with us?" He beckoned his head towards the Emma, who was texting on her phone in her lunch box so a teacher won't notice. She was making it quite ovious though. Rikki kept her eyes on Emma, as Sam denied, and Lewis pressured her to change her mind. Rikki noticed Emma's worried face on her phone. Suddenly, she looked up and made eye contact with Rikki. She looked distressed as she beckoned to her phone. Rikki took this as a hint, to check her phone, where she found 3 messages.
Two from Cleo and one from Emma. Rikki turned her phone on vibrate so she couldn't miss anymore.
'Something bads happened with Cleo.' Was the message from Emma, which had been recieved only a minute before. The other 2 from Cleo, were three hours old. One, a picture of a fish (which was the girls secret, mermaid issue, code), the other a message reading 'KIM ISSUE!'.
Kim was Cleo's little sister.
Rikki looked at Emma and shrugged, before turning her attention back to Sam and Lewis, who were now talking about ghosts.
"I heard about some ghost 'hero' from Amity Park," Lewis was saying. "Danny Phantom i think?" Sam smiled and nodded. "Real?"
"Um... YEAH!" Smiled Sam.
"Sick." Mumbled Lewis.
"Ghosts totally arn't real," Rikki interupted, forgetting about Cleo. Sam raised an eyebrow at Rikki.
"Don't even utter those words in a sentence together." Rikki was about to respond, when she was pulled back by her shirt.
"Oi!" She turned to see Emma... looking very angry.
"Can I borrow her a minute," Emma asked Sam and Lewis, before pulling her around to the side of a classroom, away from other students.
"What Emma?"
"Rikki! This could be serious!" She cried, beckoning to her phone. Rikki rolled her eyes.
"It's probably not. Cleo over-reacts all the time."
"No, you just don't take anything seriously!" Emma exclaimed, as a group of three freshman girls walked around the cornor. Emma stepped away from Rikki, but continued glaring. Rikki took rthe oppurtunity to walk away and head back over to Lewis and Sam.
"Everything okay?" Lewis asked as she approached, scowling.
"Yeah," she spat, sitting down at the bench. Straight after, the bell chimed signaling end of lunch.
"Well, try and come this arvo," Lewis said to Sam.
"Come where?" Rikki asked.
"Juicenet. Where still going there arn't we?" Lewis answered. Rikki smiled and nodded.
"Oh ofcourse. Yeah Sam, come along!" Sam stood and smiled softly.
"I'll see," she answered, before walking towards the buildings.
"So what happened with you and Emma?" Lewis asked. Rikki shook her head.
"Oh nothing," she replied, as the headed for classes. They'd just stepped into the school, when Rikki's pocket vibrated. She considered ignoring it, expecting it to be Emma, but risked checking it. She pulled it out and saw it was from Cleo. Opening the message, she read the two words.
She read them again.
And once more.
Then, we her mouth gaped, she looked up, only to see Emma across the hall, holding her own phone and given Rikki an identical, panicked look.
The message had held some bad information.
Some very bad information.
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